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Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch
ANNUAL REPORT of the MEDICAL OFFICER of HEALTH.
Health Department,
Town Hall,
Old Street, E.C.
January, 1909,
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch.
Sir and Gentlemen,
This report deals with the public health, sanitary condition and vital
statistics of the Borough of Shoreditch for the year ending December 31st, 1908.
POPULATION.
The number of persons resident in the Borough is estimated at 115,642, as
compared with 116,073 in 1907, 116,506 in 1906, 116,939 in 1905, 117,360 in
1904, and 117,740 in 1903. The estimated populations in the registration
sub-districts are as follows: —Shoreditch South, comprising Moorfields,
Church, and Hoxton Wards, 42,458; Shoreditch North-West, comprising
Wenlock and Whitmore Wards, 37,310 ; and Shoreditch North-East, comprising
Kingsland, Haggerston, and Acton Wards, 35,874.

The population of Wenlock Ward includes that of the Holborn Union
Workhouse, situate in this locality, estimated at 1,373. For certain statistical
purposes the inmates of this workhouse are not regarded as persons belonging
to Shoreditch, and are, for these purposes, excluded in estimating the population
of the Borough, which becomes, therefore, 114,269, whilst that of the Ward
is reduced to 17,749.
Shoreditch has a decreasing population, the chief decrease taking place
in the southern part of the Borough, where there is a displacement of the
inhabitants owing to the erection of warehouses and other business premises
cn sites formerly occupied by dwelling houses.